Mutation rates are proposed to be a pragmatic balance struck between the harmful effects of mutations and the costs of suppressing them; this hypothesis predicts that longer-lived body parts and those that contribute to the ...
Biotechnology
Apr 9, 2019
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Celebrations are held on the 12th of February each year to commemorate the birthday of Charles Darwin, the 19th-century British naturalist, who achieved major insights into the process of evolution thereby completely revolutionising ...
Evolution
Feb 12, 2019
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An international team of seven institutions from Spain and the US including the University of Valencia has discovered for the first time that the biological activity of the c-MYC gene is necessary for cell reprogramming, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 30, 2018
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In mammals, females have a limited supply of oocytes. Oocytes have a unique epigenome with approximately half the DNA methylation of sperm, and the most terminally differentiated somatic cells. Until recently, regulators ...
Biotechnology
Nov 29, 2018
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Somatic stem cells are microscopic workhorses, constantly regenerating cells throughout the body: skin and the lining of the intestine, for example. And to University of Illinois neuroscientists, they represent untapped potential.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 17, 2018
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Key insights into how sperm and egg cells are formed have been discovered by scientists, shedding light on the earliest stages of their development.
Biotechnology
Oct 3, 2018
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An international group of researchers have raised the viability of mice that were cloned using a method called somatic cell nuclear transfer, by stimulating two epigenetic factors, and by doing this have shown that creating ...
Biotechnology
Jul 19, 2018
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The promise of generating truly pluripotent stem cells from terminally differentiated adult cell types continues to captivate scientists who envision great potential for therapeutic interventions. The two primary methods ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 3, 2018
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Nagoya University-led study shows for the first time germ cells have an inherent property to feminize the body in teleost fish, medaka.
Biotechnology
Mar 30, 2018
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The first primate clones made by somatic cell nuclear transfer are two genetically identical long-tailed macaques born recently at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai. Researchers named the ...
Biotechnology
Jan 24, 2018
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